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Updated 191005 food kashk-e-bademjan. home made maki. aspargus (now i get them cheap frozen and they taste, well not just as great, but still pretty good. olives in all shapes and colours especially kalamata and the dried turkish salty kind. broccoli. spinach. grilled halloumi cheese. broad beans. pakistani beans. number 29 at pastasentral bergen, black bean stir fry for christmas eve (im afraid i spoilt my chistmas mood by eating it in november but well see). ruccola quiche. fried wasabi coated peas. gormeh sabzi. punjab sweet house pakoras. carrot soup with koriander. artichokes. the pizzas Christina makes. polenta. the green garlic peas Verity sent me from brighton.
art the corto maltese cartoon. jeff wall. why cant Superflex get their virtual city karlskrona 2 online again?. swiss and german information design. heart agency
drink rooibush tea. 1 litre bottles of doogh. port wine. the crazy forbidden date wine i had in iran last time. doogh wine if its more than a rumour. the red bean milk drink i once had in a thai restaurant. very cold water. china tarry tea with a bit of salt
Updated 191005 architecture the yokohama terminal by Foreign Office. mathias klotz. peter cook. architects sans frontiers. the fanzine loud paper in its paper shape. the metabolists. oscar hansen. team x. neatly drawn dwg blocks of families out walking. superstudio. stalker. architecture for humanity. the new Allianz stadium in München by H & DM. the inner wooden core in Henning Larsens Copenhagen opera. The new archilab book on experimental urbanism.
Updated 191005 places the grocery store Attack! in a northern tehran shopping complex. the 10 sq feet ikea at the same place. the concrete carved silo that is bergen school of architecture. the university library. the meteora mountainrange in mainland greece. the underground village i almost got lost in during my last journey across turkey. Bam, which now sadly is in ruins (the most exciting sand castle you can imagine). the greek restaurant on a corner near the great portland street station. foyles book store. the sörnainen sauna in helsinki, finland. the sauna at Kongstenhallen, Fredrikstad. the public swimming pool in Jyvaskula, finland.
brains sharon zukin. zygmunt bauman. marc augè. john pløger. michel de montaingne. emmanuel levinas. ludvig wittgenstein.
I didn't want to see people Hurting people But I refuse to close my eyes So in front of me I see ugly people Seething and believing ugly LiesAnd yes, of course, I'm Scared of being hurt And yes, of course, I'm Scared of being wrong But at the same time my silence Will convict me And the evil will carry on If I can do some good I want to do it If I have a choice I want to make it It's my human responsibility That life lives Selfishness gives And death becomes naturalSo you can stay cool behind Your window And choose the view You want to see But as long as there are Others held captive Do not consider Yourself free.
(cropped 16th of april 07) - Life But How To Live It, Yusuf Islam, Bad Brains, Embrace, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft, Jeremy Enigk, Blonde redhead, Cro Mags, Logh, Mew, Mineral, DInosaur Jr, The Murder City Devils, Dead Moon, Tv on the radio, Hot Snakes and Goran Bregovic
address unknown (kim ki duk) + bande à part (godard) + sans soleil (marker) + stalker (tarkovsky) + lovers of the artic circle (medem) + all about my mother + landscape in the mist (angelopoulos) + the beekeeper (angelopoulos) + unlucky monkey (sabu) + the return + 81/2 (fellini) + eternity and a day (angelopoulos) + spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring again (kim ki duk) + two or three things i know about her (godard) + theoreme (pasolini) + Trust (hal hartley) + Howl's Moving Castle (Miyasaki) + Exotica (Egoyan) + Grizzly Man (Herzog) + The Devil's Eye (Bergman) + Belle De Jour ("Voila! Le Obstacle!") (by Bunuel) it's time to face it: Fight Club is not very subversive. its just hollywood's way of telling you that even revolution can be sold in a warehouse.
rejseholdet (denmark) + beck (sweden) + simpsons (us) + everything about nature by Sir Attenborough (uk) + finish television theatre (where did it go?) + the kingdom 1 + 2
Non-places by Marc Auge - The journey to night's end by Louis Fernand Celine - Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman - The fall of public man by Richard Sennett - anything by Hermann Hesse, even the romantic anti modernity stuff - poetry by Tarjei vesaas, Marc Cholodenko, James Sacre, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams - oh, where to stop
cat stevens - not for what he stands up for at the moment, but for daring to take an u-turn. we may all need to do that eventually - Nils Christie - for taking crime seriously. we may not want it, but we may need it - Emmanuel Levinas - for proving that religion can provide us with a solid humanistic and philosophic fundament for ethics in relation to the Other - anyone who stand up against the stupid culture of pop icons that want nothing more than a better world for themselves.